It was in 2004, at the height of the French Touch, that the Parisian collective, led by Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux, released its first album, taking its original concept worldwide : New Wave = Wave Bossa Nova = Nouvelle Vague. Nouvelle Vague’s latest live production finds the band returning to its roots : an acoustic [...]

L’Imperatrice’s first album “Matahari” Deluxe Edition available Worldwide on April 5th. Following a very successful release in France, L’Imperatrice’s debut album “Matahari” is released worldwide in 2019 and it feels like a coronation. “Imperatrice”is French for “Empress”, and if their moniker is the most difficult thing to grasp for anglophones, then musically there’s nothing that [...]

A Soliloquy gives a voice to inner thoughts. With her new album, Lou Doillon reveals more of herself than ever. “I had a desire to be more up-front” she says about “Soliloquy”, the follow-upp of the globally successful “Places and Lay Low”. Her third album marks a new way of working. Lou Doillon deliberately sought [...]

When jazz meets sacred afro-Cubans rhythms Que Vola? “What’s up?” That’s what Cubans like to say when they greet each other. They like it so much that the expression has become a kind of verbal gimmick in the heavily musical Spanish spoken on the island. Que Vola? is also the name of a unique musical project that brings [...]

Là-haut, French word for « up there» is the opening track of Matahari, L’Impératrice’s debut album. It is the soundtrack of a desire to escape, to let things go. It is in this direction that Aymeric Bergada du Cadet (French director of La Femme’s Sphynx) and Damien Moulierac are guiding the character of the video [...]

“Burn” is the first single from Lou Doillon’ new album to be released early 2019. Co-produced by Doillon and Benjamin Lebeau of French electro band The Shoes, “Burn” was recorded in overnight sessions at a disused Parisian warehouse. The track’s taut, New Wave groove explores a compulsive, month-to-the-flame attraction. Listen here

Charlotte Gainsbourg has announced a new EP titled Take 2, out December 14 via Because Music. Among the EP’s five new tracks is a cover of Kanye West’s “Runaway,” which Gainsbourg debuted live earlier this year. The EP will also feature a new version of “Deadly Valentine,” a standout track from her 2017 album Rest. Take 2 marks her first official release [...]

Ed Banger Records unveils 15 Ans, an orchestral arrangement of Ed Banger’s most loved tracks. From Justice to Mr. Oizo, from DJ Mehdi to SebastiAn, from Busy P to Breakbot, 15 Ans is performed entirely by the 70-piece Orchestre Lamoureux. To mark the release, Ed Banger have also shared a highlight reel of some of the best Ed Banger music videos over the past 15 years set to the orchestral version of Cassius’ [...]